PhD Title

Work and Citizenship: a Multi-Sited Ethnography of Labour, Political Engagement and the Construction of Meaningful Work in Scottish Worker Co-operatives’ (working title)

PhD Supervision

Dr Trevor Stack (University of Aberdeen)

Dr Cristina Flesher Fominaya (Loughborough University)

Teaching (University of Edinburgh)

Guest Lectures:

- "Marxist and Socialist Feminism", 3 October 2018 (Contemporary Feminist Debates)

- "Drug Trade on the Darknet Cryptomarkets", 29 March 2018 (Sociology of Intoxication)

- "Marxist and Socialist Feminism", 3 October 2017 (Contemporary Feminist Debates)

- "Economic Justice: A Case for Worker Cooperatives", 3 March 2017 (Sustainable Development 2A)

Senior Tutor:

- Sustainable Development 2A (Summer semester 2017/2018)

- Sustainable Development 1A (Winter semester 2016/2017)

- Sustainable Development 2A (Summer semester 2016/2017)

Tutor:

- Sustainable Development 1A (Winter semester 2015/2016)

- Sociology 1B (Summer semester 2015/2016)

- Sociology 2B (Summer semester 2015/2016)

Talks and Papers

- "Turn to the Darknet", Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas, Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, 11 August 2018

- "Online Anonymity"; at the Academic Salon hosted by Sociology Society, University of Edinburgh (invited), 12 October 2017

Publications

Book Review: Breen, Keith. 2012. Under Weber's Shadow: Modernity, Subjectivity and Politics in Habermas, Arendt and MacIntyre. E-International Relations. 17/04/2017

Book Review: Hahnel, Robin and Eric Olin Wright. 2014. Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy. British Journal of Sociology. 05/08/2016.

Affiliation

- since Oct 2018: co-convenor of the Citizens, Nations and Migration Network (University of Edinburgh)

- since Sept 2018: Member of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh

- Research Assistant and Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Sociology, University of Edinburgh (July 2017 - January 2018)

- since 2017: Co-founder and research co-ordinator (Scotland) of the interdisciplinary research network "World of Work".

- since 2017: Member of the editorial board of H-Citizenship Network

- 2017-2018: Member of the American Sociological Association

Conferences Organisation

• 2018/09/03-04: Organisation of Radical Democratic Citizenship, funded by CISRUL and CNaM.
• 2016/03/21-22: Member of the organising committee for the conference “New Directions”. Organised by Sociology, University of Edinburgh.(forthcoming)
• 2015/12/10-11: Organisational support for the conference “Weber / Simmel Antagonisms: Staged Dialogues”. Organised by the Max Weber Group of the British Sociological Association and Sociology, University of Edinburgh.
• 2015/11/06: Co-Organising and chairing the roundtable discussion "Migrant Voices - Public Narratives". Organised by Sociology, University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Archivio delle Memorie Migranti (Rome, Italy) and LIVED (Charity)

Qualifications

2011-2012: Magister Litterarum (Master of Letters) in International Political Theory, The University of St Andrews / United Kingdom

             Dissertation: 'Arendt Dates Marx: Capitalism as the Mortician of Worldliness'

2008-2011: BSc (Bachelor of Science) in Economics and Management, Libera Università di Bolzano (The Free University of Bolzano) / Italy

Exchange Programmes

2011, Summer term: Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey (ERASMUS)

2009, Summer term: National Sun-Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (awarded via a bilateral university agreement)

Awards

PhD Fellowship at CISRUL for 2016-2019 (full stipend / RCUK level)

Scholarship from the region South-Tyrol in Italy for 2009-2011: “Borsa di Studio della Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, Alto Adige”